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Today, our team at HqO is excited to announce we closed $6.6M in seed financing, led by Accomplice with a tremendous group of strategic investors, included in the release below. As the leader in the tenant experience space, we aren't just building a company, but creating a new category of software. While the capital is helpful, what is most powerful about this round is the strategic advantage this consortium of investors provides us. We are grateful to the industry leaders from JLL Spark who took a deep dive into the tenant experience landscape which played out over several months. We are also fortunate that Spark's CEOs, Mihir and Yishai, have extensive backgrounds in consumer technology, which led them to dig deep into the key user metrics of the players in the space, and ultimately determine that we are the team to back. Big thanks to Ryan Moore and Accomplice for the continued support, Jody Gessow and Steve Novick at DivcoWest who became early believers, and Travis Putnam at Navitas for bringing a tremendous amount of value already in a short period of time. We look forward to expanding our team and scaling our offering to continue to help landlords to create places that people love.

On the heels of launching our Seaport neighborhood guide, we’re excited to announce the launch of our tenant experience platform at Jamestown's historic Innovation and Design building in Boston. The IDB launch was a huge week for our team as the building clocks in at 1.4m sq ft, and fast forward five days of on-site amenities, in-app announcements, trivia and more, and over 1,000 tenants are now actively part of the HqO@IDB community.

Middle-men and women everywhere, beware. As has been the case in many other industries, the real estate stack is being cut down by disruptive companies who see the margins of antiquated middlemen as their areas of opportunity ( Bezos's favorite saying).

It's seems like the perfect time for Pitbull to do a coworking remix of his famous 2009 Hotel Room Service lyrics "we at the hotel, motel, Holiday Inn," as Knotel, the flexible office space startup, just raised $70M in financing lead by Newmark Knight Frank. This follows up Industrious's $80M financing in February of this year, and the well covered $4.4B funding WeWork took from Softbank in August of 2017.

Proptech is having a moment. If you are like our team at HqO, you started to feel it coming on at the end of 2017. From the many conversations we have with both tenants and landlords, the overall sentiment around real estate has seemed drastically different than years past. How companies think about and interact with their space has changed as employees have adapted to the internet's impact on work. Smart landlords are ramping up their knowledge and implementation of technology much more quickly than they may have anticipated just two to three years ago. But why? And why now?

This morning, our team officially announced what we’ve been working on for several months: we are now officially HqO, a tenant engagement platform designed to help commercial landlords optimize their property and create a workspace that tenants will love.